Abstract [en]

The latest PISA study from 2012 tested students´ skills in math, reading and science. The study was focused on fifteen year olds worldwide. Sweden was the country that impaired their results most of all the participating countries in all areas. This suggests that something needs to be done. We have studied how to intrigue interest in the subject’s physics and chemistry in school. Our method is a case study where we collected and critically reviewed previous research to answer our research questions. Our questions are Can teachers with a different content and approach create a bigger interest for science and in wich way? and What should the teacher base the education on and in which teaching environments is it easiest to capture the students curiosity about science education? Our result from this study shows that the content of the education must be based on the students´ interest and education must relate to students´ everyday lives to intrigue an interest. It also shows that themes must be worked with in the natural environments which mean that teaching must be moved outside the traditional classroom environment. We recommend that further research creates a concrete material that follows the curriculum and is based on research on how to intrigue interest in science education in primary school.